She cried those elfin tears From eyes too bold to seeShe said those adult words From cherub lips aquiver with fear And something else All the more disconcerting

And then she laughed Stealing my soul freezing my blood twice over While those tears so cold Slide down my cheek Carving their way into my fleshDripping red onto my blouse

So where are we now Somewhere beyond the realIn another place all together different from what we know

But it seems she was born to this world That shadow which she cast That never matched her childlike meter Which towered large above the surface of her Seems to engulf this planeAnd she too has grown Into the voice which speaks Into the eyes which cried those poison tears Shattering my comfort like daggers To my shocked and faltering heart Laboriously racing to my aide With half heated bursts of insight And fleeting glimpses of potentiality

This is where she belongs Amongst silent prying eyes Larger than life Stealing the joy from my soul absently As if picking daises from a flower bed While I gasp and cry for mercy As she did in my world On my plane On my terms Where she was a childNow I speak as one Clawing at my throat to spit these flaming words Desperately needing to be understood

Now she smiling bitterly Now she raising a hand to my face Now she gorging out my sightless eyes that see as a child should see Now she releasing me to fall doomed into despair Till I awaken shaken and bruised by my own hand My bed sheets torn and soiled

And She? Where she belongs here amongst the stars

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